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Zusatztext ... highly original and immensely rich ... Drawing on international economic law, human rights doctrine, normative theory, and an astonishingly thorough analysis of relevant regional and domestic law, Professor McCrudden provides a rewarding treatment of the challenges associated with the transnational and comparative problems of regulating governmental contracting ... by undertaking such a comprehensive and analytically sophisticated study, Professor McCrudden is helping to forge what will likely become a major new field at the intersection of international law, social policy, and governance ... [he] has taken a major theoretical step in helping us understand the challenges and opportunities that will arise as international law grapples with the public problems posed by partially privatized nation states. Informationen zum Autor Christopher McCrudden is Professor of Human Rights Law and Fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford Klappentext Buying Social Justice analyses how governments in developed and developing countries use their contracting power in order to advance social equality and reduce discrimination! and argues that this approach is an entirely legitimate! and underused means of achieving social justice. Zusammenfassung Buying Social Justice analyses how governments in developed and developing countries use their contracting power in order to advance social equality and reduce discrimination, and argues that this approach is an entirely legitimate, and underused means of achieving social justice. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: What is this book about? Part I: Preliminaries 2: Roots 3: Status Equality Law and Policy 4: International and European Procurement Regulation 5: Buying Social Justice? Part II: The World Trade Organization and procurement linkages 6: Contract compliance in the United States and Canada 7: Set-asides in the United States, Canada 8: Evolution of the Government Procurement Agreement Model and procurement linkages 9: Procurement linkages and developing countries Part III: Equality Linkages and the European Community 10: Procurement linkages and the 1980s reform of EC procurement regulation 11: Domestic procurement linkages during the 1990s and the chilling effect of European procurement regulation 12: Changing approaches to procurement linkages in the Community and beyond 13: Expansion of equality linkages in the Member States 14: Procurement linkages and the 2003 legislative reforms: a modus vivendi in sight? Part IV: Interpretation 15: Interpreting the Government Procurement Agreement 16: EC public procurement law and equality linkages: foundations for interpretation 17: European public procurement law and equality linkages: government as consumer, government as regulator Part V: Conclusions 18: Reconciling social and economic approaches to public procurement ...
